The Civil War in Ten Minutes

SOME MAIN POINTS AND/OR DATES
In the text of the Constitution - Habeas Corpus (show me the body)
Reconstruction  - Hug and Slug
Civil War, War Between the States, The War of Northern Aggression -  Date: April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865 (last shot ended June 1865)
Emancipation Proclamation - 1863
April 14, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
April 15, 1865 - Lincoln dies (having never regained consciousness.

NOTE: Mr. Hughes' date is incorrect for the start of the Civil War.
RESOURCE: A Timeline of the Civil War - How it all went down.